The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-11
Farm Notes.


In a series of experiments made by the
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station on
cabbage worms, the most efficacious remedy
was found to be mixture of one ounce of
pyrethrum with buckwheat flour.
The product of swine can be preserved a
longer time in dolectable condition than
the meat of any other animal. No other
kind of meat with six months age will re-
tain the delicious flavor Of a choice sugar
cured ham. This is big point in favor of
pork-raising.
In sowing seeds 1T is well to remember
that though the soil should be deep and
linely puiverizcd, yet a loose condition is
unfavorable to good growth. After the
seeds are sown heavy rolling would be a
great advantage. This practice, though
often pursued i'll farm crops, is seldom ex-
tended to garden work.
Nature has created in swine an appetite
for roots, and has as an aid to their procur-
ing this variety of food providing them with
means for digging them up. Roots are good
for hogs, especially in the winter when the
grass is dead. The sugar beet is one of the
best of tho cultivated roots for hogs; it is
easily grown is a large yielder, and will
contribute to health and growth.
The best whitcwaSh we have ever had
knowledge of is composed of lime Stacked
,
into which (for inside work. while hot mix
starch made from half pound of flour,
or two ounces of common white glue, thor
oughly dissolved For outside work add to
the above preparation a handful of rock salt
and as much soft boiled rice. This will
stick with uneNamplod certainty.
81 have used during two years past, :" says
a correspondent in HuSbdndmdn, water
impregnated with gas tar for the purpose of
destroying the Colorado beetle on my po-
tato vines. 1t has proved more efticacious
than paris green and has been used with
equal effect upon my currant bushes. Two
quarts of gas tar TO a pailful of water are
the proportions used and the vines or bushes
are sprinkled by means of watering-pot
Green ducks is the term applied to young
ducks under three months old, and they are
considered great delicacies, being superior
to game in some respects They do not
reach the market i'll large numbers as yet,
but the demand is increasing every year.
They weigh about eight pounds per pair,
and are fattened well before being shipped
to market.
A school for horseshoers would add thou
sands of dollars to the value of horses.
While the blacksmiths and horseshoers are
familiar with the work of shoeing, and I'M
derstand the quality of the shoes, yet large
majority of them are in ignorance of the
structure of the hoof Shooting has become
an art, and there is much to learn in that
respect.
Twenty years ago the poultry on farms
received but little attention, being allowed
to roOSt on trees in severe weather, and to
pick up subsistence wherever it could be
found. AT the present day there is large
amount of capital invested in poultry honses
and yards, while large proportion of the
tar,rJ va nov. and yHyira ptureI
is sold to poultrymen for use in cOops and
for fencing. There are several poultry
houses in this country that cost from S2,OOO
to $4,000
The great Importance of water to fruits
is inferred from the fact that 1000 pounds
of apples Just from the tree contain S3l
pounds of water; grapes, $50 pounds; straw
berries, SOP pounds; plums, S3S pounds
pears, S31 pounds; cherries, S25 pounds
Fruits, excepting the seeds, contain but a
small percentage of nitrogen, potash, soda,
lime, magneSia, phOSphoric acid, sulphuric
acid or silicic acid
R. H. NJ, of Edgefeld, KY, writes:
have an old pear tree, ON which, four years
ago, budded keitfer pear. The bud, at
the base, is two inches in diameter, eight
feet in length and has eight branches, the
longest branch being four feet Last year
1T bore about forty pears. This year, by
careful count, it has two hundred and sixty
five large pears. Some clusters on single
branch and in space of one feot have
twenty-five pears averaging half pound
1t is the greatest curiosity in proficacy that
| ever saw in the pear line, far excelling the
LeConte, and is the most beautiful pear,
being clear lemon yellow with bright
red cheek. One specimen last year weighed
eighteen ounces. Some specimens will sur
pass it this year 1t ripens in October.